Science Of Motion

17/11/2024

Meaning of life 7
The hug
Jean Luc Cornille.
Michel Roche, (1936-2004) and Bon Espoir won the jumping team gold medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Bon Espoir, also known as “Nènèsse,” was a very unusual horse. His power, stamina, courage were out of the ordinary but so was his style over the jumps. He was quite inverted flying over large oxers. Michel often commented smiling, “It is hard to stay in perfect two points position when the horse look at you straight in your eyes over the jump.” Michel adapted to the horse’s style and succeed when others tried to change the horse’s style and failed. Jean d’Orgeix was the other man who believed in the horse. D’Orgeix was the trainer of the French jumping squad and he qualified “Nènèsse,” in spite of his style.

When Michel told me, “I have a horse for you. He is an incredible jumper and absolutely fearless, but he is impossible to ride,” I truly believed that the horse was difficult. Coming from a man who figured another very complex horse, the warning had to be taken serious. Michel added, “If you can figure him, you have your next international three-day event horse. We never ride him between the shows; we only lunge him as he is too crazy. Also, you cannot touch him with the legs.”

The horse was indeed a phenomenal jumper. He was also unusual in many other aspects. He became mine. His name was Atoll 2. At first, he jumped in the sky when he felt my legs but I envisioned a career with him and I could not remain at the level of “managing the defect.” I had to start a complete education.

I walked from the stable to the forest applying my lower thighs just above the knees on the saddle. I don’t usually use this technique as contact of the lower thighs and knees on the saddle tend to move the calve away from the horse’s flanks. In the circumstance, I applied the technique because it moves the lower legs away from the horse’s flanks, Once I was in the forest, the very long alleyways of soft sand offered a better environment for eventual fast forward explosion. I placed my lower legs on contact and he reacted like an electroshock. I kept a study contact with my lower legs and he eventually calmed down but only after serious bounces and otger creative moves. We walked a long time in the forest. Fontainebleau is a dream forest; the footing is excellent and the forest is very diversified. There are large rocky elements that are referred to as the “mountains,” because mountain climbers use them for practice. It was a special pleasure to walk through the forest riding a superior athlete. I could not afford to buy an athlete of this caliber if he had been reasonably easy to ride. The next few days, I just walked the horse in the forest keeping my lower legs on contact. I adjusted the stirrups two holes shorten than my normal dressage length to be able to quickly go up into a two points position if the moves became too difficult to absorb just with my vertebral column.

I decide then to shorter the stirrups two holes more like for jumping thinking about some rising trot and even canter work. He just lost his mind. He acted like he did the first day. I squeeze my knees, moved my calves away as he was jumping all over the place and it was impossible to change the stirrups adjustment. I went back to the barn quite disappointed, wondering if it was the trot that triggered such intense reactions. An intuition was telling me that it was the short stirrups that triggered the panic. The thought was not rational but a word kept coming back in my mind, “He needs a hug.” In his best seller, “How we decide,” Jonah Lehrer explored the nexus of thought, emotion and feeling in the decision making process. The next day, I adjusted the stirrups at their original length and Atoll trotted and cantered relatively calmly. In a matter of a week, a horse who could not deal with any contact of the rider’s lower legs was now losing his mind when my lower legs were not giving him a gentle but study hug.

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16/11/2024

09/11/2024

Horse Ballet
Jean Luc Cornille
“Musicians in general are intelligent and the time spent on extensive explanation and advice is well spent.” (A. B. M. (Boni) Rietveld, Dancers’ and musicians’ injuries)



“Injuries are caused by bad luck, fatigue, and stress, but, most of all, by faulty technique.” Boni Rietveld is an orthopaedic surgeon who devoted his professional life entirely to the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of dancers’ and musicians’ injuries. Analogies between humans and equines have to be approached with extreme caution as there are considerable differences between human and equine physiology and neurophysiology. However, as well as for dancers and musicians, the main cause of horses’ injuries is faulty techniques.



Through 30 years of experience, Dr. Rietveld has observed that faulty techniques were often due to ignorant compensation for physical limitation. Through the same period of time I have observed that faulty techniques in equestrian education were often due to ignorance of the athletic demands imposed on the horses’ physique by the performances and consequently incapacity of the trainers to identify and correct horses’ faulty compensations. Trainers know how the movements are supposed to look like but lack sound understanding of the underlying biomechanics factors. In dance, ignorant compensations for physical limitations form a structural predisposition for dance injuries. As well, improper analysis or ignorance of the horse’s physical limitations allows compensations predisposing the horse for injuries. Rietveld comments, “The dance teacher is the first line of defense in the prevention of dancers’ injuries.” In parallel, the horse’s teacher is the first line of defense against injuries. Unfortunately, when knowledge is lacking, trainers and self-proclaimed masters becomes the main factor of equine injuries. They advertise rehabilitation but they deliver debilitation. For instance, when lateral movement is asked spinning a rope, or touching the legs with a whip, or touching the horse’s body with a bamboo pole, the trainer ignorance exposes the horse to performances for which the horse’s physique is not properly coordinated and consequently, predisposes the horse for injuries.



One major cause of equine injuries is asking performances before the end of the growing process. In humans, growth end first in the feet and the last body part to grow is the back. Equine growing follow similar patterns. In humans, polyarticular muscles which span more than one growth plate such as the re**us femoris, sartorius, and hamstring, became temporarily “too short” and are especially more vulnerable for growing pains. The situation is different in equine in terms of which muscles are involved, but the same principle applies. Dr. Rietveld observed, “Due to this stiffness and discomfort, the dance student is temporarily unable to fully lift the legs or make high kicks. In the worst case, the student is criticized and judged to be lazy by the teacher, starts forcing, develops complaints and gets injured.” This applies almost word for word to equines. Horses are criticized and judges to be lazy by trainers, they are forced to perform and get injured. All these primitive training psychologies resuming equine behavior into social order and leadership, label the horse’s resistances, as behavior issues. This includes laziness. These so called behavioral issues are in fact cries for help. Feeling discomfort or pain, a horse protects his physique resisting forward movement, or lateral bending or other move. When the trainer’s knowledge is insufficient, the horse has no hope for soundness.



Rietveld wrote, “Dancers are used to discomfort, but, because of their body awareness and due to their high physical demands, a pending injury is noticed in an early stage, often before modern imaging technology shows abnormalities “ The same can be done with horses as long as the rider and the trainer priority is not PLEASE CLICK LINK TO READ ON https://www.scienceofmotion.com/horse_ballet.html

08/11/2024

The meaning of life
Part 3 Jean Luc Cornille.
"Why has elegance found so little following?" Edsger Dijkstra

I was on the top of the world. I was ready to sign lucrative contracts with sponsors. I was considering a date with Brigit Bardot. I just won the dressage test of a major three day event selection trial. Adding spice to the victory, the president of the jury was Colonel Margot. My horse was a phenomenal athlete. He was one of the best horses that I ever had the privilege to ride and train. He was great in dressage, fast on the cross country course and respectful on the stadium jumping. However, he did all that with a marked rigidity on the right side of his thoracolumbar spine. I have tried everything that I knew to supple him. I worked hours and hours on circles and shoulder in. Many high level riders came at the Fontainebleau Olympic center for training and I discussed about my difficulties with many of them. Some rode my horse, others helped me working my horse but not one could figure the source of the difficulty. “He does have some rigidity on the right side but I can’t put my finger on where the problem comes from. It does not feel like it is due to lateral bending but it is related to lateral bending. Truly I don’t know.” They all added, “You should not worry too much; he wins all the time.” Effectively, we have won five of the six competitions that we entered. I covered up the rigidity during the dressage test and the thought that I might have lured the most acute judge in the world was quite sweet.

Once the dressage competition was over, Margot came and we walked as we did many times. It was the time where he was telling me what I did wrong or what I could have done better. He demolished me in a few words. “Your horse is very rigid on the right side.” I tried to explain but you don’t explain to colonel Margot. You keep your mouth shut and you listen. “Instead of using your skill to make it look good, you should use your skill to make him feel good” All in his thoughts, Margot continued, “Tomorrow, I have no doubt that he will do well on the cross country course because he is a good horse, but with such muscle imbalance, he will have to work harder than he would have if you had resolved his muscular problem. The morning after the cross country course, you should be the first walking him out of his stall. You should look at his muscular soreness and you should take the blame.” He left, leaving me destroyed watching my feet. A grasshopper jumped off my boots into the grass. Ten minutes earlier I was on the top of the world and now, even a grasshopper does not want to have anything to do with me. Margot turned back with one finger lifted. He was wearing a black cape and the cape flew around him. I saw a matador coming back for the kill. I even lowered my head between my shoulders anticipating the pe*******on of the epee. Margot told me, “There is no glory in a victory gained at the expenses of the horse’s soundness.”

The explanation came twenty five years later. “In the cervical and thoracic vertebral column, rotation is always coupled with lateroflexion and vice versa. In the thoracic spine, as is the case during lateroflexion, the spinous processes bend in the concavity.” (Jean Marie Denoix, DVM PhD, Spinal biomechanics and functional anatomy, 1999) This is quite easy to figure. At the walk, for instance, the thoracic vertebrae bend laterally to the right when the right front leg is on the stance. The thoracic spine bends then laterally to the left when the left foreleg is on the support phase and so on. With each lateral bending is associated a rotation that is turning the tip of the dorsal spine toward the inside of the bend. Theoretically, the rotation should be equal right and left. Realistically, the rotation is always preferential right or left. In some cases, the imbalance between one rotation and the other alters the horse ability to perform lateral bending in one side and even the gaits. Unless this muscular imbalance is specifically addressed and corrected by appropriated gymnastic, the horse’ brain executes gait and performances protecting it. I treated my horse rigidity as a lack of suppleness when it was in fact a back muscles imbalance altering transversal rotations. The more I tried to increase his suppleness, the more he protected his back muscles imbalance aggravating the discrepancy between right and left rotation. Often I wondered why I did not figure that earlier, but Galileo Galilei softened my guilt. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

One year later, the horse strained his right superficial flexor tendon. I was no longer the rider. My partnership with this wonderful athlete ended when I ended my military career deciding to explore a civilian life. Key board riders would be prompt in pointing their finger on the horse’s new rider and this is why keyboard riders should learn how to ride; this would made them better persons. The man who partnered with the horse was a very good rider. I truly believe that the horse would have broken down even if I have been the rider. Margot was right when he said that with such back muscle imbalance the horse will have to work harder over the jumps. I do believe that the break down was due to abnormal stresses that were loading the right foreleg as a result of the thoracolumbar dysfunction. Each stride, the thrust generated by the hind legs induced greater force on the right front leg. It was insignificant at the level of a single stride but it became lethal thousands strides later. The new rider managed the horse’s problem as well as I did. He won major competitions with the horse. Neither he, nor I, had enough knowledge to identify the source of the problem. We both attempted to resolve the horse’s difficulty within the limits of what we knew and we did not know enough.

If I had the horse today, I would directly focus on correcting the problem of transversal rotation. I would not lose my time concentrating on peripheral approaches. I would be sure that every angles of the horse care are properly ensure, but I would not hope that auxiliary approaches would substitute for my responsibility which is identifying and correcting the root cause. The horse has been a decisive influence on my evolution. One can inject one horse’s hock and be able to perform again, but as long as one does not identify and address the source of the kinematics abnormality inducing abnormal stress on the hock, one and one’s horse will became dependent on “Hyaluronic acid “ and other drugs until the drugs will no longer manage the problem.
It does not mean anything to win a major event or make a horse execute advanced movements if we are not capable to prepare efficiently the horse physique for the athletic demand of the performance. We are just a skilled rider failing good horses. There is no success without soundness and there is no soundness without knowledge. In my search for identifying the root cause of limbs kinematics abnormalities I ended with observations that were in contradiction with common veterinary practices. It is not the hocks that cause back problems; it is the back that causes hocks problems. Interestingly these observations were in line with veterinary researches. ” As a profession, our task is to acknowledge that primary back problems do exist in horses.” (Kevin Hausler DVM, DC, PhD, 1999Preface, Veterinry Clinics of North America) I refer to the hocks as an example but my observations were not limited to the hocks. Most cases of navicular syndrome that we have rehabilitated were about correcting back muscles dysfunction creating limbs kinematics abnormalities inducing abnormal stress on the distal sesamoid bone and deep digital flexor tendon. Whatever is the limb problem, the source of the limb kinematic abnormality is, in a very large percentage of the cases in vertebral dysfunction. PLEASE CLICK LINK TO READ ON https://www.scienceofmotion.com/documents/the_meaning_of_life_pt3.html

31/10/2024

UPDATE: SOLD

29/10/2024

Surfing the High Wave with a Rubber Duck
One year or two ago, I wrote an article called “The Tide,” in which I discussed surfing the high wave versus paddling in the low wave. Surfing the high wave demands skill, experience, and good technique. At first, only a few extraordinary athletes could surf the waves. With a better understanding of the forces and better training techniques, many can now surf the high wave.
It demands skill to be a good rider and a technique upgraded to actual knowledge. An inflated duck is adequate to paddle in a low wave, but asking a rider to succeed in applying antiquated techniques is like asking a surfer to surf the high wave with a rubber duck.
The horse’s obedience to the rider’s legs was adequate as long as we believed that the re**us abdominis engages the hind legs. Once we understand that the muscle does not directly engage the hind legs, the concept of stimulus-response action-reaction comes under scrutiny. Efficient interaction with the horse does not occur at this level. Paraphrasing William Calvin, ‘Animals find out a combination of search image and movement during play and find a use for it later.“ Horses go far beyond opportunism. They find ways to center the forces around their Center of Mass despite the rider’s action trying to shift the weight over the haunches. They execute the Piaffe, ignoring the whip, stimulating the wrong reflex, and increasing the braking or decelerating activity of the hind legs instead of their propulsive activity.
Were our ancestors wrong? Yes; they were, thinking that the horse increases the hind legs’ propulsive activity during the piaffe. To their credit, they did not have the techniques to allow actual measurements. Unconsciously, they stimulated the wrong reflex, and yet they did pretty well teaching the Piaffe, and so did the horses. Should we keep stimulating the wrong reflex because we have done that for so long, and the horses Piaffed despite the whip activating their hind legs, or should we help the horse’s mental processing and physical intelligence to coordinate more efficiently their physique for the athletic demand of the Piaffe? Should we upgrade the wisdom of our ancestors to an actual understanding of the horse’s body function, or should we repeat theories that have never been scientifically proven and multiply the joins injections?
In his “Biomechanics of Lameness in Horses” (1980), James Rooney explained the kinematics abnormalities causing the lesions. His primary teaching is that the kinematic abnormality is there first, and the repetition of the abnormality causes the lesion. I expected the veterinary world to complete Roney’s research and focus on correcting the kinematics abnormality. Instead, the veterinary approach concentrated on the lesion, developing more efficient diagnostic tools. I applied James Roney’s research to train my competition horses better, and soundness became the trademark. I corrected the kinematics abnormality for better performance and applied the same technique to horses coming at the Science of Motion for rehabilitation. The horses were lame and arrived with a long history of therapies and corrective shoeing. I restored soundness by correcting the kinematics abnormality causing the lesion.
Soon, I realized that the source of the kinematic abnormality was not the result of local dysfunction but an incoordination of the whole physique. My rehabilitation was what proper education should have done, coordinating the horse’s physique efficiently for the athletic demands of the performances. Release and manipulative therapies were not helpful as they did not correct the problem but made the horse switch compensation, which complicated my rehabilitation. Paraphrasing Henri Poincare, “It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.” When the study of Biotensegrity explained that a change of tension anywhere within the system is instantly signaled to everywhere else in the body both mechanically and chemically, science confirmed and furthered what the horses told me over and over. Don’t focus on the lesion; coordinate the whole physique efficiently.

At first, I had more questions than answers as the classical views influenced me, but I didn’t respect any cult. I did not try to fit the horses to what I was told to believe. I questioned what I was told when the horses contradicted my beliefs. I felt that my experience and increasing knowledge were at the horses’ service. As I considered their resistance as an indication that my suggestions were unclear to them, I learned to work with them more respectfully. It became clear that most riding principles I was told were unrelated to actual understanding of the horse’s body function. The more I respected them and analyzed scientifically what the horses told me, the more I was impressed by their willingness and advanced mental processing capacity. The horses initiated the affection, the gentleness, and the kindness, which became the trademark of our interactions.
Jean Luc

25/10/2024

The Tide
Jean Luc Cornille
The intellectual level of equestrian education is like a tide, high and low. The high tide waves further the cleverness of Mother nature through an advanced understanding of the horse physique. Instead, the waves of the low tide run low on the ground. It is the equitation of posture and gesture, placing the horse head with side reins, touching the limbs with a whip. Low intellect equitation wants you to believe that such is your level because once you have surfed the big wave, you no longer find any interest in the low wave.

The cycle of locomotion if for a great part, the clever use of energy stored in the tendons, aponeurosis, and even muscles' belly during the first half of the stride. Intelligent equitation further the cleverness of Mother nature educating and refining the work and coordination of the back muscles managing the thrust generated by the hind legs. In his first dynamic analysis of the equine thoracolumbar spine, Richard Tucker drew the blueprint of modern education. "An initial thrust on the column is translated into a series of predominantly vertical and horizontal forces which diminish progressively as they pass from one vertebra to the next." (Richard Tucker- Contribution to the Biomechanics of the Vertebral Column, Acta Thoeriologica, VOL. IX, 13: 171-192, BIALOWIEZA, 30. XL. 1964) The main back muscles, the longissimus dorsi, and the multifidius have the capacity to convert the thrust generated by the hind legs into horizontal forces, forward motion, and vertical forces, resistance to gravity, and therefore balance control.

Intelligent equitation sublimates limb movement through the subtle education of the muscular system controlling the forces loading the legs. Instead, low intellect equitation acts on the legs making dysfunctional horses mimicking a move that normally results from proper coordination of the horse physique. By altering the cycle of locomotion, low tide equitation downgrades the horse's talent and jeopardizes its soundness. The equitation of correct aids, postures, and gestures also numbs riders feeling and intelligence. Promoting lateral bending through hand action, low intellect equitation forces the horse into inverted rotation. Lateral bending is always associated with a movement of transversal rotation, and lateral bending of the neck exceeding the degree of bending of the thoracic vertebrae induces inverted rotation of the dorsal spine. The horse is then a dysfunctional athlete mimicking lateroflexion.

For many years, those who felt that it was something wrong, that the horse was not comfortable trying to protect something, the ones who have the intelligence and intuition to surf the high wave, have been numbed down by the experts of low intellect equitation. The ones who have an intuitive mind have been criticized and even mocked by the low-wave experts. Einstein said that an intuitive mind is a sacred gift, but society instead deals with faithful servants. Einstein's remarks apply to equestrian education. Instead of furthering the gift of intuition, riding and training techniques that are not smart enough to deal with the cleverness of mother nature have dumb down the intelligence of both the riders and the horses.

Science renders justice to intuition. Science explains what many already know by feel but cannot apply because the principles or riding don't match their intuition. Advanced understanding of equine biomechanics exposes the ineptness of conventional beliefs, not all but some and, instead of updating old beliefs to new knowledge, low wave trainers protect ignorance by integrating new ideas to old beliefs. Colonel Danloux wrote, "respect for tradition should not prevent the love of progress." Many classical trainers do not respect tradition; they use tradition as an umbrella to resist progress. Instead, genuine respect for our ancestors' wisdom is updating their teaching to actual knowledge.

I often say during a lesson, don't use words, have a real conversation. Use phrases that contain emotion, intuition, nuances, feeling. The aids are just words, formulas, and thinking that their studious application may stimulate a proper response from the horse is infantile. Intuitively but also instinctively, a horse protects whatever muscle imbalance is there at the instant that the aids are applied. We can refer to this situation as the horse's body state. A horse will always respond to the rider's aids protecting his body state. The horse's initial response is a piece of valuable information as it tells us what is the body situation at this instant. Intelligence equitation explores what adjustment or added insight could lead the horse's brain toward the proper response from this information. Instead, low wave equitation interprets the horse resistance as disobedience to the aids and became assertive, furthering the horse's protective reflex mechanism. Instead of becoming a conversation, the horse's initial reaction triggers a monologue serving the rider's ego but letting the horse unprepared for the move.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think". (Albert Einstein) So are the aids. They are not the finality of the art of riding; they are the beginning. They are teaching techniques aiming at creating an artist and not a servant. I should write servants with an (S) because the aids create two servants, the horse, which focuses on obedience at the cost of physical discomfort or pain, and the rider who cannot think beyond obedience to the correct aids. The equitation of the correct aids is an equitation of formulas. The actual dialogue with the horse is much richer than that. There is a quote that says that when we don't understand, we judge. This direct our relations with horses. When we don't have in mind a sound understanding of the way the horse's physique as well as mental processing actually functions, we judge the reaction instead of using the reaction as part of a dialogue that is going to direct the horse's mind and therefore body toward the appropriated response.

Sometimes, when I write a complex study, critics argue that it is too complicated. Simplicity is precisely how low wave trainers keep their students riding low waves. The culture of simplicity is a control technique aiming at making riders believe that low wave is all they can ride. Once, the comment of a keyboard rider questioned ravenously, "And how are you going to explain that to a kid?" Precisely, kids have no problems understanding explanations that older riders cannot mentally accept because it challenges their comfort zone. Instead, children's comfort zone is conversing with the horse, and they have no problem evolving from an equitation of gesture to a dialogue based on nuances in muscle tone and, therefore, energy.

This observation makes me realize that many "ordinary" riders are capable of perception and sophistication that conventional or classical equitation is regarded as the privilege of few extraordinary riders. Instead of applying the aids, I ask them to concentrate on their senses and analyze their perception in respect of sound understanding of the equine biological mechanism, and they start communicating with their horse. They have a genuine dialogue, and with their ability to listen and not judge, they figure the nuances or add the insight that guides the horse brain toward the proper coordination.

Instead of dumbing down, horses touching their legs with a whip, placing their head with a set of reins. Instead of dumbing down riders focusing on the "correct aids," Ordinary horses and ordinary riders have an enormous potential indeed. They can surf the high wave and enjoy every second of it. The training has to evolve, but also the teaching. A leader is not the number one of the packing order. The leader is the one who has a sound understanding of the equine biological mechanism and the will to explore respect for the horse. Then, and only then, the horse can think at its full potential and develop for the rider considerable esteem.

Jean Luc

23/10/2024

Disobedience
When you have members of the governing body working in suppressing medical help to peoples who really need it, because they want to keep the money for the oil or other companies which own them, this is corruption at the higher level of indecency. However, unless organized at a national level, civil disobedience is unlikely to work. Horses who disobey revolting against injustice and incompetence are physically abused and even die in agony transported to the slaughter house. One just have to watch the outrageous brutality exerted against the native American trying to protect their land and water from the construction of an oil pipeline, to realize that the condition of humans is not much better.



The solution is demonstrated by the greatest horses, the ones who have the athleticism to get rid of any rider if they want, but intelligence to work instead with the humans who deserve the title of human. The governing body is reaching an unprecedented level of incompetence, corruption and indecency. They are elected because peoples are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught and not educated enough to question what they have been taught. As well, many great horses meet riders educated enough to know the judging standards but not educated enough to know how the horse physique needs to be developed and coordinated for the athletic demand of the performance. However, greatness stimulates greatness and humans deserving the title of humans further their education to deserve their horse.



Often, great horses meet great riders and learn that in order to respect each other, they have to turn their back to the governing bodies. The equestrian world want to submit equine athletes to system antiquated and false because they deny the evolution of scientific knowledge. They perpetuate the erroneous belief that the alighting hind leg propels the horse body upward as soon as ground contact. Scientific studies demonstrated since 1996 that at instead, the forelegs produce 57% of the vertical impulse while the hind legs only 43%. Pretenders promote the relaxed and swinging back when already In 1976, Hans Carlson demonstrated that the main function of the back muscles was resisting movement, protecting the thoracolumbar spine form movements that would exceed the thoracolumbar spine possible range of motion. They deny that lateral bending is always coupled with transversal rotation because they are too incompetent to know it and if they know the phenomenon in theory, they don’t have the experience to apply the knowledge. The practical application of actual knowledge demands questioning the wisdom of our predecessors. The ones who elect imposters or train with pretenders, refuse questioning traditional views because they would have to have the intelligence to realize that what was legitimately regarded are true years ago, is no longer true in the light of actual knowledge.



Many, in the equestrian world perpetuates antiquated beliefs because they meet horse talented enough to compensate for the rider’s ignorance. Instead, the ones who respect their horse and are willing to learn from their horse how to better train their horse, move away from training scales unrelated to actual knowledge. They embrace science and discover qualities of their horses that were hidden and even altered by traditional beliefs. Progressive and intelligent riders meet the resistance of the dummies who deny the natural rigidity of the horse’s back bone as well as global warming but they are intelligent enough to realize that they don’t need these dummies. Stupidity and corruptions are definitively a lethal combination but life can be run in parallel between humans deserving the title of humans and horses intelligent enough to educate these humans. At the least until stupidity and corruption trigger world war III. Jean Luc Cornille 2016